Detectives are appealing for witnesses and information after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted while she was walking home from a party. The assault happened as the 17-year-old girl was walking along South Park Road near to the junction with Sunvale in Bitterne at about 5am yesterday morning.

She was approached by a man who grabbed her by the shoulders and forced her into a wooded area. The man then sexually assaulted the girl.

He is described as a white man, aged about 40, and between 5ft 7ins and 5ft 9ins tall, He had short blond hair and was wearing a blue t-shirt, jeans and a black jacket. The girl managed to get away and made her way home.

Were you in the area in the early hours of this morning? Did you see a man approaching a black teenage girl early this morning? Did you hear any shouting?”

A 92-year-old man was robbed of £500 after he withdrew the money from a bank.

Two men in their late teens or early twenties were loitering in the Portswood Road branch of Barclays Bank between 2.30 and 3pm on Tuesday, August 6.

Police believe the men followed the pensioner from the bank after he took out the £500 in cash.

The man stopped briefly at Sainsbury's and when he reached a car park in Shaftesbury Avenue, he was assaulted and forced to the ground.

The victim suffered a serious hand injury and needed surgery at Southampton General Hospital on Thursday.

We need urgent contact from anyone who was in Barclays Bank, Portswood, or near Sainsbury's between 2.30 and 3pm. We also need to hear from anyone who saw the assault. We need to arrest these robbers before they strike again."

Detective Constable Laura McIntosh is appealing for information around the time of theft and warns anyone who finds the tablets to alert police.

She said: "This medication is dangerous for anyone who has not been prescribed it. If found, it should be handed in immediately to police. We also would like to hear about anyone who has acquired lots of tablets in the last few days"